https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56634
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #9 from [email protected] --- (In reply to comment #7) > I'm planning to work on this tonight; can anyone tell me whether there are > Old > English names for the five cases mentioned in comment 3, or would it be > better > for you (the users of Old English projects) to use the English ones (namely > "nominative", "accusative", "genitive", "dative" and "instrumental")? > > In general, languages use localized names for grammatical cases, with the > exception of Ukrainian, which uses the English names for some reason; the > decision in this case belongs to you. There are fully authentic OE names for the first four of those cases, and they are: *nemniendlīc - nominative *wrēgendlīc - accusative *forgifendlīc - dative *geāgniendlīc - genetive There is also kind of... a word for instrumental - it was a translation for the Latin word for the ablative case, which had a secondary instrumental sense, as I understand it. However, since the primary sense for the word is "ablative", not "instrumental", I think we could fairly go for something else. I think "tōllīc" (a straightforward calque of "instrumental": "tōl" - "instrument"+"-līc" - "-al") is entirely appropriate. I think using the OE words is appropriate. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
